Hints and tips:
...As owner of Newcastle United Football Club, he quaffed beer in the stands during a match in 2008, not wine in the executive box....
...“I said I’d go and sort it out myself,” explains Mr McCabe. Expecting a drab industrial city, he was astonished by the pace of development there and in Beijing....
...His Majesty Rowan Gormley, newish boss of Majestic Wine, is showing less brash new-world panache than you might expect from a South African accountant who named his first wine venture “Orgasmic Wines”,...
...B: Dennis Rodman got in first as Kim Jong-un’s Best Friend in the west. C: I’d say you should try the Middle East, except you’re a peace envoy. That could create conflicts....
...D*face and Shepard Fairey hang alongside emerging artists and secondary market pieces in this celebration of counterculture and urban environments....
...… It is all a total shock. I associate the Côte d’Azur with crowds and the desecration of a once-beautiful playground....
...After our lunch she has a bunch of meetings, then a cocktail party, then a wine auction and a private dinner to go to, all before heading back to Bedford for the night – but first she wants to check out...
...The potential market for lifestyle portals is huge....
...Began with a “B”). We’d dropped acid and had sex three or four times with Radiohead’s Kid A on shuffle-repeat....
...G ‘flounces off’ as London store puts its foot down in heels tiff - Chinese are pouring money into fine wines - Rumours swirl around BG takeover - Dana’s Chief fights for improved offer - Sinochem ‘closely...
...You can’t drive fast because (a) the maximum speed limit is 45mph and (b) most of the roads are rutted dirt....
...Trad jazz became skiffle, and skiffle became blues or R&B. I augmented my living by playing guitar for a while in a whores’ hotel. There were no clothes in the shops....
...A deal with A-B is the fave/not-fave rumor, depending on who you are, particularly since A-B supported Diageo on their St. Pat’s initiative....
...“The rally above $80 could be short-lived, as 1.5m barrels a day more oil [supplies] from Opec and non-Opec reaches global markets at the same time as refinery maintenance [will] curtail 1m b/d of demand...
...If you were invited to a tasting of the crème de la crème of Canadian wine would you a) titter nervously b) snort derisively c) run a mile in the opposite direction or d) accept with curiosity?...
...Now, Whole Foods has quite a wine selection, but the store isn’t known for its discount prices on anything, and when it comes to wine, you’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the store is really sticking it...
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